Outsource Prisons: Sweden Is Sending Convicted Persons to Estonia
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Defending the rights of a convicted person or a person in pretrial detention does not mean minimizing the harm or forgetting the victims. It means defending something essential: that, in a State governed by law, no one is left outside the law or the Constitution.
On August 18, the first flight arrived in Estonia with Swedish prisoners, who will be housed in a rented prison in Tartu.
Tens of thousands of new prison places are needed and for lack of anything else, Sweden is placing prisoners abroad. The Social Democrats want to accelerate the construction of more prisons. – So why not here instead of in Estonia, asks Teresa Carvalho (S) at a meeting in Råda.
Sweden pays Estonia to keep its prisoners in Tartu, and the prison outsourcing model is gaining popularity in Europe due to overcrowding.
The prisoners will be housed in Tartu prison in the southeast of the country, on the border with Russia.
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